IC 5332 - Spiral In Sculptor

Posted by dcrowson
on Friday, February 3, 2023
IC 5332 (ESO 408-9, PGC 71775 and others) is an intermediate spiral galaxy located approximately 33 million light-years away in Sculptor.

Luminance – 22x600s – 220 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 22:22:23x600s – 220:220:230 minutes – binned 1x1

890 minutes total exposure – 14 hours 50 minutes

Imaged over ten nights in August, September and October, 2022 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a FLI PL 9000 on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/52668092068/sizes/l/
LRGB crop - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/52668091993/sizes/l/

See my previous refractor image taken from New Mexico - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/49624857638.
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